The New Life

The Milk of the Word.
can be sustained only by the word from the mouth of
God. Your life, my young brother, will largely depend
on whether you learn to deal wisely and well
with God's word, or whether you learn to use the
word from the beginning as your milk.^
See what a charming parable the Lord has given
us here in the mother's milk. Out of her own life
does the mother yield food and life to her child. The
feeding of the child is the work of the tenderest love,
in which the child is pressed to the breast, and is held
in the closest fellowship with the mother. And the
milk is just what the weak child requires—food gentle
and yet strong.
Even so is there in the word of God the very life
and power of God.^ His tender love will, through
the word, receive us into the gentlest and most intimate
fellowship with Himself.^ His love will give
us out of the word what is, like warm, soft milk, just
fitted for our weakness. Let no one suppose that the
word is too high or too hard for him. For the disciple
who receives the word, and trustfully relies on
Jesus to teach him by the Spirit, the word of God
shall practically prove to be gentle, sweet milk for
new-born infants.*
Dear young Christians, would you continue standing,
would you become strong, would you always live
for the Lord ? Then hear this day the voice of your
1 Ps. xix. 8, II, cxix. 97, loo ;
Isa. Iv. 2 3 ; i Cor. xii. n.
2 John vi. 63 ; i Thess. ii. 13 ; Heb. iv. 12.
3 John X. 4.
*Ps. cxix. 18 John xiv. 26
; ;
Kph. i. 17, iG.
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